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Create, Edit, Compose, or Convert Bitmap Images
+ -ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
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ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to scale, flip, mirror, rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.
The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the command line or you can use the features from programs written in your favorite programming language. Choose from these interfaces: G2F (Ada), MagickCore (C), MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject (COM+), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java), L-Magick (Lisp), NMagick (Neko/haXe), MagickNet (.NET), PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP), IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), RMagick (Ruby), or TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface, use ImageMagick to modify or create images dynamically and automagically.
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- Format conversion: convert an image from one format to another (e.g. PNG to JPEG). -
- Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. -
- Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. -
- Draw: add shapes or text to an image. -
- Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. -
- Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. -
- Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images. -
- Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image. +
- Transform: resize, rotate, crop, flip or trim an image. +
- Transparency: render portions of an image invisible. +
- Draw: add shapes or text to an image. +
- Decorate: add a border or frame to an image. +
- Special effects: blur, sharpen, threshold, or tint an image. +
- Animation: create a GIF animation sequence from a group of images. +
- Text & comments: insert descriptive or artistic text in an image.
- Image identification: describe the format and attributes of an image.
- Composite: overlap one image over another.
- Montage: juxtapose image thumbnails on an image canvas. @@ -222,7 +232,7 @@
An open source project backed by years of continual development, ImageMagick supports about 100 image formats and can perform impressive operations such as creating images from scratch; changing colors; stretching, rotating, and overlaying images; and overlaying text on images. Whether you use ImageMagick to manage the family photos or to embark on a job involving millions of images, this book provides you with the knowledge to manage your images with ease.
The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick explains all of these capabilities and more in a practical, learn-by-example fashion. You'll get comfortable using ImageMagick for any image-processing task. Through the book's coverage of the ImageMagick interfaces for C, Perl, PHP, and Ruby, you'll learn how to incorporate ImageMagick features into a variety of applications.
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To join the ImageMagick user community, try the discourse server. You can review questions or comments (with informed responses) posed by ImageMagick users or ask your own questions.
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